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Attached the greetings by myself (with nice words about Frank Heinrich) and by Frank Heinrich, member of the German federal parliament (with nice words about me) – we did not know what the other would say!
After the last general audience with Pope Francis prior to the summer break, the Pakistani human rights lawyer Aneeqa Anthony has presented a painted brick as a symbol for the numerous Christians enslaved in brick factories in Pakistan. The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, and the leader of the ISHR's Department for Religious Freedom, Michaela Koller, arranged the meeting and accompanied the lawyer.
After conviction the criminals were not initially sent to prison, but a day later the implementation of justice may have begun, more than nine years after the death of the martyrs. This article was originally […]
Two world religions – two books which span the globe: the Bible and the Koran. Both have been and still are disseminated in the millions every year. And the contents of these two books continue to write world history.
82 Evangelical Theologians from all over Europe meet in ‘Lutherstadt’ Wittenberg
Der für Ökumene zuständige stellvertretende Generalsekretär der Weltweiten Evangelischen Allianz, Thomas Schirrmacher, hat am Rande des Treffens der Generalsekretäre der meisten Konfessionen in Rom begrüßt, dass die evangelikale Theologie immer bessere Konfessionskundler hervorbringe und der bisweilen vorschnellen Verurteilung das gründliche Studium, konkrete Kennenlernen und fair Darstellen anderer Konfessionen immer mehr die Regel werde.
The 2016 Yearbook on Religious Freedom contains articles by Angela Merkel, Volker Kauder, Annette Schawan, and Heiner Bielefeldt as well as articles by Alevites, Yazidis, and Baha’i. The 2016 Yearbook on Christian Persecution and Discrimination goes into the question of religious minorities in refugee shelters and deals in particular with China, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, and Turkey.